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The Florists^ Review 



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(■ri'dits in riisc growing :ui(l rose breod- 

 iiio- on the diseases and insects wiiich 

 filfcet roses, on rose popularity in vari- 

 ons innts of tlie I'nited States and Can- 

 ada, on rose organizations, and on roses 

 grown i'or cut llowers, were of sufli 

 value that tlie volume will long remain 

 a standard leference book, comparing 

 fuvorablv with the best issues of the 

 National Kose Society of England. 



As an illustration of hoAV tliis An- 

 nual was received not only in this coun- 

 try, but in Europe as well, I want to 

 read you from a letter of May 2G, 1910, 

 from'.Toseph J. Eane, of the Garden 

 Magazine: 



I had tlio pleasiiro of bciii!,' one of tlioso 

 present at the meeting of the American Hose 

 Society diirinj; the IMiiladelphia llower sliow in 

 I'lKi "l)e(•all^se I joined tlie society two or three 

 liays' before. I tell yo\i frankly that the reason 

 1 joined the Itose Society was to ^et a copy of 

 till' Itose Annual and to alliliate myself with an 

 organization which was so entluisiastically KoinK 

 ahont its work. The majority of the horticul- 

 tural organizations as a rule solicit you for your 

 ihies and never think of makinj,' any plans for 

 you to (,'et souiethint; back for your money. I 

 •nil t;lad to say tliat in receivint; a copy of the 

 Kose Annual I "have received sntlicient to iiay me 

 for my entire ilues. Next year I want you to 

 solicit us good and hard for aiivertisinu' in this 

 liook. The Canlcn MaKaziue and ("ouiitrv l,ife 

 in America. aUo some of our garden books, 

 should be ill there and I will do everything in 

 my powi'r to sic that they are. 



The heading of a column and a hall' 



article in tlu' Gardeners' Chronicle of 



.lulv ^, l!>l(i, an English publication, 



starts off in this fashion: 



I'hi' .\ueTican Kose Society ami Mr. McF.'ir 

 l.ind. it^ I'ditnr, ari' to be concralulated on the 

 issue of the lirsf Annual under the ausiiices of 

 the Kocietv. This forms a volunie of some ir)0 

 pa>.'e>. the Inst ten of which are devoted to 

 arcoiint^ of ro^r shows. 



Then it goes on, giving a thorough re- 

 sume of the hook in its many phases. 



These arc but two instances of many, 

 showing how wonderfully the Annual of 

 liUG was received, indeed a volume to 

 be jirond of 



Research Work. 



In the late spring of 19IG a fund 

 for research work in rose diseases was 

 started. A liberal response to the call 

 for subscriptions from interested rose 

 growers all over the country mmle it 

 possible fnr the otlicers to arrange 

 through Dr. 11. H. Whetzel, the jiatholo- 

 gist of Cornidl University, for the em- 

 jdoyment of Dr. L. M. Massey to under- 

 take tlic disease study desired. The 

 university itself bears an important part 

 of tlie cost of tlie work. 



Dr. Massey began work in the early 

 fall and his accomplishments up to date 

 have been most gratifying, even though 

 it was not expected that there would be 

 any particular result for at least a year. 

 For e.\:im]>le, his imestigation of the 

 new trouble which besets cut llower rose 

 growers, a form of crown rcuit gall, is 

 likely to result in the early checking of 

 a disease which certainly, under previ- 

 ously existing conditions, might easily 

 ha\e ]>ut many growers entirely out of 

 business. It is most important that 

 every gro'.ver, particularly the commer- 

 cial man, should take careful note of 

 the disease. Dr. Massey has also taken 

 up carefully the study"^ of the dillicult 

 black spot and in the 1017 Annual will 

 be found his article bearing on this most 

 important subject. The research fund 

 was solicited largely through personal 

 ollort and it is my sincere hope that 

 tht> subscrijitions will be renewed and 

 extended, so that the work may be car- 

 ried on for another year, or as much 

 longer as is necessary to keep the mem- 

 bers of the society fuUy informed as 

 to rose diseases and as to'the best means 

 for combating them. 



William L. Rock. 



(\'icr I'residenl-l.lccl ot the .\ni.'iicaii Kose Sociotv. i 



The Nursery Trade. 



It seems that the nurserymen are not 

 taking advantage of thidr ojiportunities, 

 ill coming in and being represented more 

 strongly in the society. I would like 

 to quote from a letter of February 17, 

 1917, received from .bdin Watson, jiresi- 

 tlent of the American Association of 

 Nurserymen: 



I am a member of the .\nierican Itose So<'i<>tv. 

 but a poor one. and a member of the committee 

 for till' t'ornell garden. I especially regret not 

 b.iviiiK tieeii able to do anytliiuK for the >:ardeu 

 • ■\cept to send some ro--e plants, .'lud to ask my 

 I'liends amoiif; the foreign rose Krowers to do 

 likewise: the war has so seriously handicapped 

 thorn that they liave not sent as many iilants 

 :iN they could have sent under normal conditions. 



No s<ociety of its kind is of ^ri-ater impovtanco 

 to the nursiTv trade than the Ho-.e So. let v. for 

 It has so inucii to do. 1 was writinc Mr. McFar- 

 laiid the other clay recrettiuR th<> backwardness 

 of American i;rowers in hybridizinc While we 

 liave many new see<nini,'s, tliey are nearly all 

 tdrcini: varieties, exceiit the Wichuraiana hybrids, 

 uliich have boi>n overdone. Some years airo, when 

 at Mr Lambert's in Trevos. I was interested in 

 his enthusiasm for his plans to produce a race 

 of liardy everbloomiin; climbers. Von know in 

 his Trier he produced an almost everbliximinc 

 r.imbler. He will >.'0 the ri'>t of the way. I feel 

 -lire. Then there are the riiu'osas, which we are 

 bavinir untouched, the easiest to cross, while 

 the results so far have piven lis the best that we 

 havo in hardy roses liko .Vniclie Cravereaiix, Mine, 

 l.ui'ien Ville'minot. Conrad F. Mi'yer and Nova 

 /embla. That race is what we must look to in 

 America: Hardiness, pverbloomins habit. Kood 

 foliage and fragrance. Oiir hybridizer.s all seem 

 to be workinc on forcinc roses, of which we havo 

 .111 abundance. We must look to the hardy, out- 

 door ro-es, just as the liritisli growers devote 

 themsolves to tlie hybrid teas. It is amazinc 

 that the American nurserymi'n are dointr nothinR 

 for tlie rose and nothini.' for tin' .\nierican Kose 

 Sorioty, 



From this you will see how one of 

 our jirominent fellow nurserymen feels 

 not only about the society, but the intro- 

 ducing of new roses of American origin 

 as well. It would not only give me great 

 jileasure, but immense satisfaction, to 

 have tlie nurscrvmen and their inter- 



ests mori^ closidy allied with the Rose 

 Siiciety and 1 hope we may have their 

 liiller support in the future. 



Rose Test Gardens. 



Our work in the ji.'ist of the rose test- 

 ing gardens is too well known for me 

 to go over it at this time. These test 

 giirdens, 1 am glad to say, are bringing 

 good results, hut not as good as we 

 would like to have in the way of records 

 of how the gardens are being kept up, 

 as these are of great importance. These 

 test gtirdens ;ire going to be one of the 

 \aluable assets of the society, not only 

 in tiie actual garden tests, but in the 

 records of the roses. May we look for- 

 ward to only a few years hence when 

 e\ cry city of any size will take hold and 

 foster a rose garden such as Portland, 

 Ore., is undertaking at this time, which 

 is c;illed the Portland Association Na- 

 tional Kose Test (.iardeu, a wonderful 

 mo\ cnu'iit not only for Portland, but for 

 the Rose Society aiul the rose business 

 in general, which is being backed by 

 such licidies as the Chamlier of Com- 

 merce, city council and ninety-seven 

 other organizations. Think of it: Ninety- 

 nine distinct organizations! This spells 

 ]irogress in the broadest seuse of the 

 word and to niy mind should be an incen- 

 tive for every other city in this country. 

 I want to read you a quotation from 

 ••Horticulture" of July 15, 1916: 



We have hoard from a number of places whore 

 miinici|ial roso j;.irdons are being established 

 this year, or are beiiin planned. It is only a 

 iliiestion of time, and that not louK. until a 

 rose irarden will lie regarded as an indispensable 

 feature of every public park and private estates 

 u'encrally will follow suit. t'ntil the advent 

 of the hardy hybrid teas and evorblooniius 

 pcdyanlhas, there w.is little indiiceinent for the 



